ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,695, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Integer VSi Technologies LLC (Clarence, N.Y.).

"Coating system using a mechanical pump and a turbomolecular pump" was invented by Steven Scott Neely (Louisville, Colo.), Michael Todd Swanson II (Denver), Bradford Alan Gillette (Broomfield, Colo.) and Brian J. Behne (Erie, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coating system for parylene deposition may include a chamber, a pumping system having a first and a second pump, where a pumping speed of the first and second pumps is based at least in part on an operating pressure; and a controller, the controller configured by machine-readable instruct...